{"id":11368,"date":"2015-02-18T17:02:43","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T22:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/?p=11368"},"modified":"2015-02-18T17:02:43","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T22:02:43","slug":"the-arcoa-group-celebrates-25th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/news\/2015\/02\/the-arcoa-group-celebrates-25th-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"The ARCOA Group Celebrates 25th Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"

Waukegan, Illinois, Feb. 18, 2015 –<\/em> Local firm specializing in IT Asset Management and responsible\u00a0Electronics Recycling is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. The ARCOA Group was founded in\u00a01990 as Midwest Copier Exchange by Ed Spriegel and provides asset remarketing and recycling for all\u00a0types of \u201cend of use\u201d office electronics and copiers.<\/p>\n

The ARCOA Group has grown from a company that started in Mr. Spriegel\u2019s garage in Beach Park, Illinois\u00a0with Spriegel and one other employee, to now employing over 80 full-time staff members in 4 locations\u00a0nationwide. This anniversary marks 25 years of innovation and improvements within the company and\u00a0the industry. When asked why he founded the company, Mr. Spriegel responded, \u201cI was working in a\u00a0large corporation and didn\u2019t like what I saw. I wanted something different for myself, my family and\u00a0hopefully for my future employees. I wanted to build a company that encouraged free thinking and\u00a0innovation and I did not want our decisions and actions to be defined by traditional \u2018corporate\u2019 norms.\u201d<\/p>\n

The ARCOA Group began as a remarketer of used copiers that Mr. Spriegel would purchase from local\u00a0copier dealers and resell to other copier dealers in the Chicago metro area. The business has expanded\u00a0to serving customers across the entire United States and even globally. ARCOA\u2019s expertise in the\u00a0industry has led to partnerships with a number of large financial leasing institutions for whom ARCOA\u00a0would provide remarketing services of off-lease office and medical equipment. While remarketing\u00a0continues to be a core focus of The ARCOA Group, in 2009 Mr. Spriegel saw a growing need for the\u00a0recycling of electronics and partnered with George Hinkle to establish Midwest Electronics Recycling.<\/p>\n

Initially Midwest Electronics Recycling recycled only copiers, printers and fax machines from Midwest\u00a0Copier Exchange that were considered obsolete or un-repairable. As the company continued to grow,\u00a0they began offering recycling services to corporate customers in the Chicago metro area. Terry Levy\u00a0joined Hinkle and Spriegel as a partner in 2010 and brought to the company an extensive background in\u00a0precious metals and electronics recycling gained after many years in the industry in South Africa. In\u00a02011, Midwest Electronics Recycling became one of the first companies in the country to become both\u00a0R2 and ISO14001 certified and changed their name to the Asset Recycling Company of America (ARCOA)\u00a0to better identify themselves as a nationwide provider of asset management and electronics recycling\u00a0services. ARCOA also provides services to other recyclers, computer refurbishers and scrap metal yards\u00a0through the purchase of scrap commodities and electronics that require disassembly and processing. In\u00a02013, Midwest Copier Exchange and ARCOA merged together to form the ARCOA Group. Today the\u00a0company employs over 80 full-time staff members and has offices in Illinois, Wisconsin, Maryland and\u00a0Florida.<\/p>\n

About ARCOA Group<\/em><\/p>\n

The ARCOA Group provides a closed loop solution for businesses requiring secure and safe management\u00a0and disposal of IT assets, office and medical equipment. Their services include de-installation at\u00a0customer locations, transportation of equipment in their own fleet of trucks, data sanitization, serialized\u00a0equipment reports, certificates of recycling and destruction, remarketing services, redeployment of\u00a0equipment and recycling for end-of-life electronics. They have also recently broadened their services to\u00a0include toner cartridge recycling, as well as a buy back program for mobile phones, with additional\u00a0program offerings in development to better serve their existing and future customers. The ARCOA\u00a0Group provides all of these services throughout the US and Canada.<\/p>\n

For additional information you can visit them at: www.thinkarcoa.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Waukegan, Illinois, Feb. 18, 2015 – Local firm specializing in IT Asset Management and responsible\u00a0Electronics Recycling is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. The ARCOA Group was founded in\u00a01990 as Midwest Copier Exchange by Ed Spriegel and provides asset remarketing and recycling for all\u00a0types of \u201cend of use\u201d office electronics and copiers. The ARCOA Group has grown from a company that started in Mr. Spriegel\u2019s garage in Beach Park, Illinois\u00a0with Spriegel and one other employee, to now employing over 80 full-time staff members in 4 locations\u00a0nationwide. This anniversary marks 25 years of innovation and improvements within the company and\u00a0the industry. When asked why he founded the company, Mr. Spriegel responded, \u201cI was working in a\u00a0large corporation and didn\u2019t like what I saw. I wanted something different for myself, my family and\u00a0hopefully for my future employees. I wanted to build a company that encouraged free thinking and\u00a0innovation and I did not want our decisions and actions to be defined by traditional \u2018corporate\u2019 norms.\u201d The ARCOA Group began as a remarketer of used copiers that Mr. Spriegel would purchase from local\u00a0copier dealers and resell to other copier dealers in the Chicago metro area. The business has expanded\u00a0to serving customers across the entire United States and even globally. ARCOA\u2019s expertise in the\u00a0industry has led to partnerships with a number of large financial leasing institutions for whom ARCOA\u00a0would provide remarketing services of off-lease office and medical equipment. While remarketing\u00a0continues to be a core focus of The ARCOA Group, in 2009 Mr. Spriegel saw a growing need for the\u00a0recycling of electronics and partnered with George Hinkle to establish Midwest Electronics Recycling. Initially Midwest Electronics Recycling recycled only copiers, printers and fax machines from Midwest\u00a0Copier Exchange that were considered obsolete or un-repairable. As the company continued to grow,\u00a0they began offering recycling services to corporate customers in the Chicago metro area. Terry Levy\u00a0joined Hinkle and Spriegel as a partner in 2010 and brought to the company an extensive background in\u00a0precious metals and electronics recycling gained after many years in the industry in South Africa. In\u00a02011, Midwest Electronics Recycling became one of the first companies in the country to become both\u00a0R2 and ISO14001 certified and changed their name to the Asset Recycling Company of America (ARCOA)\u00a0to better identify themselves as a nationwide provider of asset management and electronics recycling\u00a0services. ARCOA also provides services to other recyclers, computer refurbishers and scrap metal yards\u00a0through the purchase of scrap commodities and electronics that require disassembly and processing. In\u00a02013, Midwest Copier Exchange and ARCOA merged together to form the ARCOA Group. Today the\u00a0company employs over 80 full-time staff members and has offices in Illinois, Wisconsin, Maryland and\u00a0Florida. About ARCOA Group The ARCOA Group provides a closed loop solution for businesses requiring secure and safe management\u00a0and disposal of IT assets, office and medical equipment. Their services include de-installation at\u00a0customer locations, transportation of equipment in their own fleet of trucks, data sanitization, serialized\u00a0equipment reports, certificates of recycling and destruction, remarketing services, redeployment of\u00a0equipment and recycling for end-of-life electronics. They have also recently broadened their services to\u00a0include toner cartridge recycling, as well as a buy back program for mobile phones, with additional\u00a0program offerings in development to better serve their existing and future customers. The ARCOA\u00a0Group provides all of these services throughout the US and Canada. For additional information you can visit them at: www.thinkarcoa.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[86],"tags":[2092],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11368"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11369,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11368\/revisions\/11369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}